Yes, many times.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Elm Gysel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 10:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.0 Session Timeout
" I also ask the session its timeout value and it still says 18000 seconds."
Thats weird tho, did you reboot Tomcat?
Elm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: Tomcat 4.0 Session Timeout
> > How are you noticing that your session is still active?
> I let the browser sit for 10 minutes (timeout set to 5 minutes) and I
click
> a button on my browser page which invokes one of my servlets. The servlet
> asks for the session and receives current session complete with all the
> values (user settings) that were set in it by my logon servlet. If the
> session had timed out, the user settings would have been null. I also ask
> the session its timeout value and it still says 18000 seconds.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elm Gysel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.0 Session Timeout
>
>
> If you have changed <session-timeout> and restarted the server then it
> should work.
>
> How are you noticing that your session is still active?
>
> Elm
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:27 PM
> Subject: Tomcat 4.0 Session Timeout
>
>
> > I've asked this twice already and have yet to receive an answer.
Someone
> > running Tomcat 4.0 must know the answer to my question. I must get this
> > resolved since the security requirements of my application require the
> > user's session to automatically time out after 5 minutes of
inactivity...
> >
> > How do I set the session time out for a context in Tomcat 4.0. The
> session
> > time out is defaulting to 18000 seconds (5 hours?). I have tried adding
> the
> > following to both my context's WEB-INF/web.xml file and the
> > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml file but both are ignored.
> >
> > <session-config>
> > <session-timeout>300</session-timeout>
> > </session-config>
> >
> > How do I go about setting the time out to 5 minutes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim Urban
> > Product Manager
> > Netsteps Inc.
> > Suite 505E
> > 1 Pierce Pl.
> > Itasca, IL 60143
> > Voice: (630) 250-3045 x2164
> > Fax: (630) 250-3046
> >
> >
> > PS: Love Tomcat 4.0, it seems really solid!
>
